Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field. A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding...

In the midst of the current financial crisis the economics profession has seen a monumental resurrection of Keynesian ideas. The debate, which Keynes started back in the 1930s, is being picked up again, not where it left off, but in exactly the same place it started. While Keynesian theories...

Estudio del pensamiento social y político de José Julián Martí, del que se traducen a la lengua italiana algunos de sus escritos de especial interés. La autora del libro es docente en la Universidad de Messina y ha publicado un número considerable de páginas sobre este gran pensador...

Se pretende en este artículo presentar los contenidos de lo que es la asignatura de Historia de las Relaciones Laborales, una disciplina básica del grado en Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos, con un perfil claramente jurídico y a la vez social, desde un punto de vista histórico. Los...

Marx's Notebooks prepared in 1868 and 1869 (excerpts from The Economist and The Money Market Review) are an investigation on the crisis of 1866. Beyond a broad study of that crisis, they are an investigation of an emerging transformation of capitalism. They focus on leading industrial sectors...

Volumen dedicado al pensamiento marxista tanto desde el punto de vista clásico como de las diferentes tendencias fruto de la evolución de sus más destacados postulados y en el que se incide en la influencia de esta doctrina decimonónica en todos los campos del saber. El planteamiento llevado...

The main goal of this article is to identify and critically examine the foundations of the monetary theories to which Lowndes and Locke appealed during their debate around the Great Recoinage of 1696. In the course of the investigation I came by the critical commentaries of Sir James Steuart and...

Because economic affairs involve individual action, they must be understood on the basis of a theory which is both subjective, depending on a conception of individual decision-making and especially private interest, and objective, demonstrating how the objective forces of a system of interaction...

Karl Marx is well known for sharply criticizing the social effects that technical change had on the employment and the working conditions of the labourers. At the same time, he was fascinated by the revolutionary power that technical innovations offered and assigned such innovations to play a...